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James D. Malcolmson

Contributing Watches Editor

James D. Malcolmson has been covering the Swiss watch industry as a journalist for more than 15 years. As a contributing editor to Robb Report and the editor of Robb Report Watch Collector, he has enjoyed an insider’s perspective and witnessed a new appreciation of fine mechanical watches blossom in the United States. James visits the factories and workshops in Switzerland several times each year, and brings a unique comparative knowledge of the various techniques used in the industry today to Robb Report’s readers.

Even seasoned aficionados cannot keep their hands off Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph. When Jaeger’s North America president, Ronnie Wolfgang, produced the debut model...

De Bethune founders Denis Flageollet and David Zanetta have classical tastes. Although they virtually revolutionized the aesthetics of the mechanical movement with the artfully curved plates of their...

The Ulysse Nardin Royal Blue Tourbillon indicates that company president and owner Rolf Schnyder, one of Christophe Claret’s earliest patrons, still elicits some of the complication specialist’s best...